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The Ninety-Five
Each town is an island world with different laws and dangers, and the only things that connect them are mysterious trains. On one train, in one car, five strangers tell their stories. None of these people are safe, but one of them brings as much peril as the lawless Desert outside the train…
The Kid
The Kid ran for the train. The Kid’s previous name was gone, as if shorn away by shaking scissors like his hair. He remembered the long blac…
The Preacher
A preacher of the Word of Rebirth (the Preacher said) travels widely. It is important, you see, that every last settlement and town and hove…
The Medicine Seller
At any rate, there I was, in a town where the fog pressed in so thick that all the colors seemed muted, when they weren’t washed out altoget…
The Gambler
There was a time (the Gambler said) when all the gamblers in the Network wanted their shot at the Crystal City. Probably still true, most pl…
The Businessman
Foursquare is the only place in the Network with four train stations. Nobody knows exactly why it’s like that. The city grew up around the s…
The Ghost-Catcher
The Network doesn’t have an edge. That’s common knowledge. But most travelers know that the further you go, the stranger the towns get. Here…
The Gunslinger
First of all (the Gunslinger said) I always finish the job. Whatever it is, whatever I’m paid to do, I either do it or I don’t take the mone…
The Fight
There was a frozen moment. “Shoot him,” the Businessman said. The guards hesitated. The Gunslinger had both his guns in hand, one pointed at…
The Engineer
“We’re dead,” the Gambler summarized, when they came back down into the car. “The abhumans decoupled the cars,” the Ghost-catcher said. “Dis…